Lisa See

The most important character to learn is dian. Who can tell me what it means?”
“Lightning!” The students sing out in perfect chorus.
“We can also call that electricity,” he says.
“Electricity,” we repeat as one, echoing his pronunciation as closely as possible.
“If I add the character—”
“Speak,” we practically shout as he writes the character next to dian.
“I get—”
“Telephone!”
“If I add the characters for vision and sowing seeds to dian, I get—”
“Television!”
“And if I write shadow next to dian, I get—”

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It’s important for women—and girls—to find friendship and steadfastness where they can.

but Blood is a bigger essence. In women, Blood is the leader. It is what allows a woman to become pregnant and feed a fetus. It turns into mother’s milk upon her giving birth.”

Most important for women is the Kidney, for we are by our natures connected to water and darkness,” Grandmother explains to me when I join her in the pharmacy in the late afternoon. “We are also governed by the Seven Emotions of elation, anger, sadness, grief, worry, fear, and fright. Of the Five Fatigues, three specifically target women: fatigue from grief brought on by losing a child or husband, fatigue from worry about finances, a wayward husband, or an ailing child, and fatigue from trying to lift her family to a higher status.

“Most important for women is the Kidney, for we are by our natures connected to water and darkness,” Grandmother explains to me when I join her in the pharmacy in the late afternoon. “We are also governed by the Seven Emotions of elation, anger, sadness, grief, worry, fear, and fright. Of the Five Fatigues, three specifically target women: fatigue from grief brought on by losing a child or husband, fatigue from worry about finances, a wayward husband, or an ailing child, and fatigue from trying to lift her family to a higher status

are also governed by the Seven Emotions of elation, anger, sadness, grief, worry, fear, and fright. Of the Five Fatigues, three specifically target women: fatigue from grief brought on by losing a child or husband, fatigue from worry about finances, a wayward husband, or an ailing child, and fatigue from trying to lift her family to a higher status.

Men have physical cravings for food and bedchamber affairs, but we women ooze affection and desire, love and hatred, envy and jealousy, nervousness and vindictiveness, bitterness and revenge—

It takes a lifetime to make a friend, but you can lose one in an hour,” she recites. “Life without a friend is life without sun. Life without a friend is death.”

having a daughter-in-law and mother-in-law in the same room is like tying a weasel and a rat together in a sock. The weasel and rat are enemies by nature. The weasel may be larger and have sharper teeth, but the rat is smarter and faster.